Raffaele Filieri, Audencia Business School

Elmira Djafarova, Northumbria University

Margot Racat, IDRAC Business School

Veronika Keller, Szechenyi Istvan University

Rickard Enstroem, MacEwan University

Social media influencer marketing faces uncertainty amid algorithm fatigue, regulatory scrutiny, declining consumer trust, and AI-generated influencers. Traditional theoretical frameworks struggle to explain how AI content, algorithmic curation, and synthetic personas reshape influence dynamics.

This special issue examines whether traditional influencer marketing is ending or undergoing paradigm shift in how influence is constructed, monetized, and governed. It explores how authenticity, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic mediation intersect to reshape influence practices while addressing emerging regulatory frameworks.

The issue welcomes empirically grounded contributions from multiple disciplines including strategy, media studies, consumer behavior, and technology management. It particularly encourages interdisciplinary, globally inclusive research examining non-Western contexts, emerging platforms, and underrepresented influencer communities.

Appel publié par Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l Administration. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Trust, credibility, and authenticity in digital influence
• Algorithmic mediation, platform governance, and market structure
• Consumer resistance, fatigue, and agency
• Virtual influencers, AI, and synthetic content
• Cultural, generational, and global perspectives on influence
• Professionalization, labor, and monetization in the creator economy
• Ethics, power, and the dark side of influencer marketing
• Expanding contexts of influence in B2B, nonprofit, and public sectors
• Strategic navigation of platforms, algorithms, and AI tools across global-local digital markets
• Authenticity and trust negotiation in activism, sustainability, and cause-related marketing

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Submission Deadline
• March 1, 2027: Final Decisions and Revisions

Hemant Bhargava, University of California, Davis

Andreas König, University of Passau

Jan Krämer, University of Passau

Chayanin Wipusanawan, University of Passau

This special issue examines digital platform ecosystems and their multifaceted effects on society and the economy. Platforms have become central to value creation globally, influencing organizational strategies and reshaping industries, while also raising critical questions about their governance, design, and regulation. The issue seeks to understand how platform ecosystems shape societal outcomes across labor arrangements, content moderation, user protection, fairness, data practices, and policy interactions.

The collection invites theoretical and empirical contributions from information systems and related disciplines that address both the enabling potential and societal risks of digital platforms. Research may employ quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods approaches and can take various forms including conceptual papers, empirical studies, and position papers.

Appel publié par Electronic Markets. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Platform Governance and Ecosystem Orchestration: Governance mechanisms, rule-setting, boundary resources, and the allocation of decision rights across platform owners, complementors, and users; centralized, decentralized, and hybrid governance models.
• Strategic Conduct, Market Power, and Competitive Dynamics: Strategic positioning, platform envelopment, self-preferencing, lock-in, multi-homing, and the implications of dominant platforms for competition and market structure.
• Innovation, Complementor Dynamics, and Value Co-creation: Generativity, innovation governance, API and data access, developer relations, incentive structures, and strategies for value creation and capture across ecosystem participants.
• Content Governance, Speech, and Public Discourse: Content moderation, recommender systems, platform policies, and their effects on online speech, civic participation, and political communication across jurisdictions.
• Societal Risks, Safety, and Equity: Fairness, inclusion, and distributional effects of platform governance and algorithmic decision-making; information integrity and the maintenance of digital trust; safety, well-being, and protection of vulnerable users.
• Regulation, Policy, and Institutional Change: Antitrust and platform regulation, interoperability and portability, liability regimes, standards, oversight of platform policies and algorithmic systems, and the interaction between platform governance and public policy.
• Platforms and Socio-Economic Development: Platformization trajectories, local innovation ecosystems, informal economies, and societal impacts in emerging and developing contexts.

Timeline

• July 1, 2026: Open for submissions
• December 1, 2026: Submission Deadline

Appel publié par Computers & Industrial Engineering. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• October 31, 2026: Full paper submission deadline

Carlos Diaz Ruiz, Hanken School of Economics

Sofia Ulver, Lund University

James Pamment, Lund University

Appel publié par Journal of Marketing Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Whether and how programmatic advertising funds fake news
• How do the recommender algorithms amplify incendiary content
• How can AI-generated content be used to spread disinformation
• Do the monetization schemes of the creator economy reward polarization
• How do influence operations exploit marketing infrastructures
• What initiatives and interventions can strengthen societal resilience to disinformation
• What forms of platform governance can protect liberal deliberative democracies
• What methodologies, including Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), can be used to investigate disinformation on AdTech and social media

Timeline

• September 15, 2026: Manuscript deadline